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11/7/2003 Fallen_Icarus: Step-die pool mechanic for consideration
Hi all. I've been away for quite a while so bear with me if I'm not up to date on all the recent threads. The core mechanic for the game…
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Participants: Fallen_Icarus, Jack Spencer Jr, failrate, Andrew Martin, Walt Freitag, Valamir, Mike Holmes, gabby2600, TheRedSoup, Phillip.

11/6/2003 Chris Barrett: A dice mechanic to swarm on and pick apart.
I like mechanics that allow for very remote possibilities but exploding dice don't do it for me. I want to do one toss and be done. This system uses a…
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Participants: Chris Barrett, Walt Freitag, Andrew Martin.

11/6/2003 LizardLips: Come, enjoy my tasty dice mechanics with hot baked stones!
I've been working on game for a while now and its becoming fairly complex. Before I continue I was hoping you guys could look over a few chunks of my…
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Participants: LizardLips, LordSmerf, Ben Lehman, Dev, Wolfen, xiombarg, Valamir, Halzebier, Mike Holmes, greyorm.

11/6/2003 Bevan: Using luck and Karma
One of the central ideas behind the mechanics for Spiritus Mundi is that it can be used both as a normal table-top rpg and as a live-action rpg (larp). Because…
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Participants: Bevan, Andrew Martin, Jack Aidley, Dev, gabby2600.

11/5/2003 Syranos: The Why and how Come
The main reason why is to test myself. I have been a roleplayer for years and a D.M./Storyteller for a long time about 14 years. I wasn't quiet happy with…
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Participants: Syranos, Mike Holmes.

11/4/2003 gabby2600: The Most soul Destroying part of Game Gevelopment?
Well Just done the first stages of character generation, in a week of so I know it will all turn to crap. I 'm starting Skill descriptions, this is makeing…
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Participants: gabby2600, failrate, Rich Forest, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, ZeOtter, scorpio rising, Andrew Martin, Jeph, Paul Czege.

11/4/2003 LizardLips: Dice Mechanic Primer
I've been tinkering with rules and homebrewed games for years now, but I think I really want to buckle down and turn one of my nebulous ideas into a real…
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Participants: LizardLips, Andrea Gualano, Mike Holmes, Jeph, dyjoots, ander75it, gobi, Lxndr, Valamir.

11/4/2003 Bevan: Spirit magic
I have a definite preference for magic in roleplaying games revolving around the summoning and mastery of various spirits (demons, ghosts, angels, etc.) as seen in games such as Sorcerer,…
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Participants: Bevan, Mark Thomas, Mike Holmes, gabby2600, roleplyr4ever, greyorm, matthijs, gobi, HOT, M. J. Young, Minx, Harlequin, Ron Edwards, Aman the Rejected.

11/4/2003 Drifter Bob: That dreaded word realism
There is a link to the long awaited part 2 of my realism in RPG's article in the RPG theory forum http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=8556 DB
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Participants: Drifter Bob.

11/4/2003 Andrea Gualano: A generic system for playing everywhere
This is a generic diceless system, designed to play improvised games in any situation where you have some spare time. Some desing goals: a) it can be played everywhere: train,…
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Participants: Andrea Gualano, Mike Holmes, apeiron, Lxndr, MachMoth, xiombarg, John Kim.

11/3/2003 MachMoth: Saeculum Adstructum - A shameless plug in the making.
Boy, oh how many places has my direction with this one. What started as an old D&D campaign, has turned into something that has little, or no relation to that…
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Participants: MachMoth, Mike Holmes.

11/3/2003 aghori: Diceless Binary Randomizer
This comes from a post reply I made at another forum. Take four different sized coins, from smallest to biggest their values will be 1, 2, 4, 8. These are…
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Participants: aghori, Dev, M. J. Young.

11/3/2003 chronodragon: Vampires
Does somebody know a good website where i could information about vampires, to make a game design? I'd like to know everything about Vampire classes, crucifix and amulets, powers, dark…
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Participants: chronodragon, Eero Tuovinen, Ben Lehman, Ron Edwards, hix.

11/2/2003 Ben Lehman: The Tactics Project
Hi everyone -- I am working on a group-oriented tactical quasi-RPG which is going by the working title "Tactics." The goal is to have a simple, sustainable tactical RPG (or…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, LordSmerf, Emily Care, Dev, Rich Forest, Ace Pumpkin.

10/31/2003 Peregrine: Wayfarer's Song - Second Edition: Feedback
Hi everyone, I just thought I'd drop by and see if I can get a little feedback on the second edition Wayfarer's Song. A few of you will be familiar…
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Participants: Peregrine, Matt, Mike Holmes.

10/31/2003 Syranos: Rpg development
I have recently begun development of my own rpg world using an until recently unexplored system. I will be posting more latter until then I am open to suggestions. The…
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Participants: Syranos, Ben Lehman, gabby2600, M. J. Young, Ron Edwards.

10/29/2003 RobMuadib: M:COTEC - State Of The Game & More Trait Design
Greetings starfighters For our new viewers, I'd thought I'd provide a state of the game address defining the basic outline of the game as it stands, which will hopefully provide…
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Participants: RobMuadib, Mike Holmes.

10/28/2003 Tomas HVM: DM-therapy!
Hi, I've translated one of the minor RPGs of mine to English, and posted it on my site. It's a short read. Please comment! Pervo If you are a games…
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Participants: Tomas HVM, Mike Holmes, Gordon C. Landis, Anthony I, Rich Forest, Cemendur, Jasper, matthijs, failrate.

10/26/2003 Tim C Koppang: Persona - Just in Time Roleplaying
[quote="Persona's Back Cover"]Imagine if you could simply announce a character concept to your group and that would be enough--that would be character creation. Imagine if you could change your character…
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Participants: Tim C Koppang, eldae22, phewner, ejh, C. Edwards, Ben Lehman, LordSmerf, Kainesh, Andrew Norris, alessan, Andrew Martin.

10/24/2003 JSDiamond: SUPER GREEN!
Inspired by Ruby Rod. Check it out on the 'Other Projects' page. In pdf. http://www.orbit-rpg.com
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Participants: JSDiamond, gobi, Spooky Fanboy, Andrew Martin.

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11/8/2003 Andy Kitkowski: Kyuseisha: Back to Formula (failures, reworking)
OK, so this is kinda against the "post when you need feedback" thing of this forum, but I figure there's a few morals of game design in this post. Actually,…
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Participants: Andy Kitkowski, Ben Lehman, apeiron.

11/8/2003 JSDiamond: Hell Comes to Frogtown - free rpg
Apologies to anyone with taste. http://www.orbit-rpg.com/froggy.pdf
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Participants: JSDiamond, gabby2600, Lxndr, C. Edwards, greyorm, Mike Holmes, Phillip.

11/8/2003 LordSmerf: [Trithofar] Need a little feedback
Ok. Trithofar is actually a setting that a few of my friends have been using for over ten years and we're trying to get a system locked down. Anyway, the…
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Participants: LordSmerf, Andrew Martin, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Mulciber, contracycle.

11/10/2003 Spooky Fanboy: Augmented: The Trouble with Hyper-Humans
Okay. I want to design a game around a theme I find interesting: humans with standard human gifts/weaknesses that are augmented/uplifted to superhuman capability. Think Nobilis (for it's Aspect descriptions),…
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Participants: Spooky Fanboy, Valamir, Ron Edwards, gobi, Andrew Martin, Mike Holmes, Shreyas Sampat.

11/11/2003 Dumirik: Character Creation in Nightscape
Ho, I haven't been posting for a while, and haven't been spending too much time on my game (major exams in school), but during the next few weeks I should…
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Participants: Dumirik, Mike Holmes.

11/11/2003 Valamir: Robots & Rapiers Adventure and Pregen Characters availab
Alright. It took a good bit longer to finish than I'd anticipated, but the much awaited sample adventure and pregenerated characters are available here. This is a 30 page adventure…
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Participants: Valamir, Jack Aidley, sirogit, DaGreatJL.

11/11/2003 LizardLips: Math formula to determine probabilities of this mechanic?
I have no head for numbers. I want to build a table of probabilities. Along one axis would be a row of target numbers (1 to 20), along the other…
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Participants: LizardLips, Eero Tuovinen, HMT, Mike Holmes.

11/11/2003 peejay: G: UM (Genus: Unitary Mechanics)
Hello all, As I am new here I must apologise if I inadvertantly stray from the rules etc. I have read them (honest!). After many years of getting by with…
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Participants: peejay, Mike Holmes.

11/12/2003 LizardLips: Games where characters have home bases
I want to take a look at games where the players have a shared "home base". I believe InSpecters has a franchise controlled by the players, Birthright had players controlling…
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Participants: LizardLips, J B Bell, Lxndr, Mike Holmes.

11/12/2003 Anthony: Core idea for a diceless system, looking for comments
I've always liked the idea of diceless karma driven games, but never the implementations I've seen. Of course the only own Nobilis and I read someone else's copy of Amber…
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Participants: Anthony, Mike Holmes, TheRedSoup.

11/12/2003 Supersonic Wind: Amateur RPG maker seeks help
I'm very new to the Indie RPG scene. In fact, I found this forum while researching for an RPG idea I got, my first. I don't know what to call…
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Participants: Supersonic Wind, Mike Holmes, Jeph.

11/13/2003 Jake Norwood: Interesting space dogfights
One of the things that made the early Star Wars films so cool was the space battles and dogfighting. I've tried several such systems in playing starwars, but none of…
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Participants: Jake Norwood, Valamir, Brian Leybourne, contracycle, gobi, Grex, LordSmerf, John Kim, Mike Holmes, b_bankhead, Walt Freitag, Overdrive, MachMoth, Darcy Burgess, Harlequin, Loki, AdAstraGames, Christopher Weeks, Dev, Furious D, Ingenious, C. Edwards, Shadetree.

11/13/2003 Dev: Meaningful-quick World-Generation for spacerpunks
(Ah, the eternal progress of space-western setting...) The lowdown: human-centric Space-Western & Space-Noir. PCs hopping around from planet to planet each episode. (Planet-of-the-week, Bounty-of-the-Week, slightly arc-y threads throughout, etc.) I've…
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Participants: Dev, Wasabi, contracycle, gobi, Mike Holmes.

11/13/2003 Wasabi: SciFi RPG: Vector
Well, about a year or two ago i decided to write my own pen-and-paper RPG. My primary gaming experience is with Fuzion, but I've played DnD once (dont like it)…
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Participants: Wasabi, Matt, John Kim, Mike Holmes.

11/14/2003 C.J.: The Invisible Regiment: A phantom world in game mechanics?
This is my first post, and I will put this, looking for advice, comments, and to inspire: the first is my latest kernel of a single campaign idea, The Invisible…
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Participants: C.J., Mike Holmes, Harlequin, gobi.

11/14/2003 xenos: Exxxploit
Hi folks. This is a semi-regular poster under an alias, cause I have a nifty idea for a game, but it would probably be offensive to some people who know…
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Participants: xenos, Paul Czege, JimmyB, Walt Freitag, Ron Edwards.

11/16/2003 gobi: [PUNK] Two possible minor revisions to task resolution
Quick recap, 'cause it's been a while since the last update. PUNK is a game of rebellion against the Man. It lays out a basic system tailored to the more…
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Participants: gobi, Shreyas Sampat, Lxndr, Dev.

11/17/2003 gobi: [Freak High] A spin on superpowers as social disadvantage
This was going to be posted on spooky's thread, but he seems to be going in a different direction with his game now. Still, the discussion of superpowers as uncontrollable…
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Participants: gobi, LordSmerf, Spooky Fanboy, Andrew Martin.

11/19/2003 Jack Aidley: [The Great Ork Gods] Early ideas.
[i][b]“You’re Green, You’re Ugly and the Gods Hate You.”[/b][/i] The Great Ork Gods is (yet another?) game based on the twist of playing the Orks for a change. It’s intended…
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Participants: Jack Aidley, Clinton R. Nixon, Mike Holmes, greyorm, lumpley, Loki, Lxndr, Mark Thomas, Ron Edwards, Belac, Czar Fnord, Rich Forest.

11/20/2003 Belac: Recommending/requiring calculators
Hello everyone, this is my first post here so I'll try to keep it concise. I've been working on a particular game for four and a half years now and…
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Participants: Belac, Jack Aidley, Lxndr, Shreyas Sampat, Mike Holmes, John Kim, M. J. Young.

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